Famous WW2 Battlefields Today (Part 2)

[TCUNC76]

Really enjoyed your work here..two historic videos..always like then now & then approach...outstanding..thanks for sharing !!!! TCUNC76

[MidwayCastaway]

thanks much awesome job..

[jetzt0844]

Thanks for posting this !!! Brilliant work !!

[88Thyra]

thank you

[sunman38]

Wow ,, Well done,,, Was a lot .of work, came out well .

[pmul246]

Great video. Thanks for sharing. It just goes to show you when you think things have changed. You realize, you were wrong.

[7JDH7NL7]

swastika's everywhere

[PitbullNL]

When i visited paris i was standing on the place were hitler held his speech.

It was a chilling cold feeling when i realised that i stood on the same place as he did 65 years ago.

[bogossemre44]

Music name please ?

[uhsodium]

@bogossemre44 Sturmgeist's Armored Train from MoH Frontline, was also used in Forgotten Hope

[poncss39]

Great!

[kl9977gmail]

卐 Nazi 卐

[sedgemoor1685]

Top marks

[germaniajim]

absolutely a fantastic video. Wunderbahr

[colchesterscott]

great collection loved seeing it

[elpelux]

The music... awesome... where is it from?

[mountainstandardtime]

Just another fucked up video to glorify the Nazi era. I know  you are in hell Hitler with all of the other nazi assholes. Suffer you asshole prick.

[JVF1689]

Thanks for sharing!

[Mr1downbrown]

nazi fail

[pilotsubmariner]

Africaeternal finds it boring.....I take it he is simply ignorant of, and thus cannot appreciate WWII history. Great video....extremely interesting. Thanks for the post.

[umfums]

Great video, thanks .

[ron9plus]

Great video, thanks for posting.

[kamankoa]

German and Japanese had no coordinated strategy. German couldn't capture Moscow and Japan suddenly attacked USA. In grand strategy terms, after 1941 December, the Axis had already lost the war. If Japan attack Soviet Union instead of USA, the world will be very different.

[pat1981lux]

and better

[foss91]

@kamankoa if you see, the Americans almost forced the gooks to attack Pearl because the americans where making a blocade

[scarwarsnow]

@kamankoa you are right but circumstances were different for Japan, they always vied with the US for the pacific control then

[gamerkid1177]

cool video

[Marijan155c]

Amazing ;)

[pablof59]

Very nice video, you did a fantastic work !

[hawkman2111]

speechless this is so great

[SullivanSkater]

GREAT JOB!!!!!

[kawasakipolaris]

awesome job

[NickerSkids]

good work.

I take it the square with the soldier on the horse is Vienna?

[Baron6661]

Good ol' MoH music

[slothmag]

Very nice, I've been to quite a few of those places.

[Danie9989]

music from medal of honour frontlines

[pingolol2]

wonderfull work :)

[krustymick]

very very nice well done

[mariojac]

Very well done and very appropriate music! Thanks for sharing!

[ReturnOfJackDawson]

thanks a lot!

[Nevenius]

Next time put some names of the places. It would be more informative. Try to blend photographs with more accurate angles.

[gottix213]

lol @ 3:40

[niklashenrixon]

i must say, some buildings lookt better when the nazis owned them..

[KalikaInLeather]

@niklashenrixon Yep the architecture, and cities in general, were better looking then than now; I'd love to walk in 40s berlin and Paris, well if only there hadnt been Nazis creepin around xD

[drakieon]

nice i being trying to find something like this and theres medel of honor music in there

[powerheli777]

5 Stars!! Grüsse aus Deutschland

[powerheli777]

cool! Where is that,at 0:26?

[tarryhoot]

Have'nt seen the first vid yet,well done.

the way you transpose the new and the old makes the soldiers look like ghosts

returning to relive their past (glories) for want of a better word.

jameslisk123,I think you're right about the music,I recognised it from a ps2 game but could'nt put my finger on it.

There is a website that shows Berlin and other German cities in the same way but cannot remember the address,does anyone know what it is?If you know it please email me,fascinating stuff.

[vonWeirdo]

most of it (if not all) is in germany.

[sprkymrt]

Excellent vid. When a person watches WW II movies or newsreels they are inclined to wonder what the places look like today.

[tomtruszkowski]

Nice Job !!!!!!!!

[ollo1982]

Extremly good work azazel87

thats 2 impressive videos u have made dude :D

[radeakins]

Your two vids are very creepy and very fascinating at the same time.

Have you got any more?

[jameslisk123]

great vid mate and like the music, medal of honour i take it???

[JimbobHarrigan]

The british fought germany and italy in europe right from the beginning, britain was not axis, they were a key member of the allies.

[76543wet]

shit,we germans where like a evil son of a bitch VIRUS..damn..!!!..

[dannybrigg]

bricks and mortar survived the whole terrible thing whilst so much flesh and blood were destroyed, amazing vid

[modskii]

Nice work!

[chickenfarm11]

Amazing how most of the buildings are still there even after Berlin was shredded by Soviet Tanks and Allied bombing.

[IsaakHunt]

Berlin really wasn't hit that bad. Dresden after all those bombings pretty much looked like a desert after the war. But in every major town in Germany you'll find spots where either there's a gap between houses that doesn't make any sense or there's a piece of architecture that doesn't fit, because it's post WW2.

My home-town wasn't bombed that hard, but some major places looked way different back then.

[IsaakHunt]

And there are also a lot of structures built during the nazi-era still present today, mainly huge bunkers around the industrial area and military camps and barracks. They are all in a remarkably good condition. The bunkers were preserved during cold-war period, the barracks had been used by German and British Army for decades after WW2. All these structures have really thick walls, built to last.

To me, it's interesting to be able to observe history right around the corner.

[strgil]

All i can say is well done.This is one of the most worth while videos on the net to watch.

[roimao]

Just beautifull. really

[andyfallondev]

Fantastic and thought provoking video. 10/10. Thank You

[stuthedigger]

once again great video.well done.

[desflam]

Un boulot remarquable ! incrayable

les musiques sont vraiment superb en plus

elle étai dans le magnifique Medal Of Honor

[martxelo73]

buen trabajo!

great job!

congratulations!

[JSymoNESx]

yay Tanja!!

[Ch3yneStoking]

thumbs up, interesting

[Vlady14]

Congratulations to Geoff,it's wasn't easy to find all this places and take such great pictures.Thank you for the video !

[Ketterashley82]

i take personal interest in WW2 because my family roots are there. I love learning about WW2. One of my favorite subjects to get involved in. One day i plan to travel to germany and see all the sites. Awesome work! I loved it thanks for sharing

[Draious]

This is amazing! Anyone know the name of the song?!

[QuantumSelf13]

Wow.. What a journey!

[DaughterOfAres]

excellent work

what really caught my attention is the places are well preserved and restored and they still look alike their old days.Here I see the full respect to the greatest witnesses of the history...

[johnyboy756]

awesome thanks

[Yoshiro83]

no!! swastikas are verboten in Germany

[tarryhoot]

Yoshiro83,correct about swastikas,the the swastika is an illegal symbol but if it is reversed it is not verboten,strange but true,go figure.

[tibbevangen]

very interesting! What a huges job it most have been to located all those places and find new pictures to match. It makes the time come alive in a new kind of way.:)

Well done!

[greenarcangel]

indeed, great job

[jesster01]

WELL DONE MATE, THANKS!

[Draious]

the place at 01:57, does it still have the swastika today? it's hard to see on the picture

[emirhc]

It does not have a swastika.

[Cozorax]

Austria is so beautifully...both during winter and summer...

I love to go there...

[iamrocktard]

amazing keep it up

[hithxl]

anybody know the music's name in this video

[bigleslvr]

music is from medal of honor frontline on playstation 2

[Tiger1AuasfE]

Touching video and amazing at the same time.

[greggl61]

This is amazing work. My all time favorites on all of You Tube!!!!

[bereabeard]

This would make a great book...before pics on the left side and current pics on the right. One could spend time comparing. Two secs for each picture just isn't enough. This is an awesome video, and the music is outstanding. Thank you.

[azazel87]

Thats where I got the idea, I saw book like this once.

[purdyquibb]

@azazel87 I would love to have a book like that. I can see me spending hours comparing. Great video....

[Splitskirts]

@bereabeard Hi, I don't remember the name of it but a friend showed me a magazine that specialised in " before and after " images from World War 2 showing England and Mainland Europe cities ( and their history ). You may come across it in a Newsagent or specialist Military Bookshop / Website. Regards.

[Elwing1]

Nice work! How long did it take to compile, and did you do all of the photography (the modern shots, of course)?

[greggl61]

awesome awesome video. I've always wanted to see before and after shots of Europe from WWII. Great job!!!!

[ICLOK]

outstanding!!!

[krzysztoffj]

Great job!

[NHB18]

BRAVO Good job definitely going into my favs gotta check out part 1

[beefjiff]

excellent job..

[FreedomHeroes]

Very Cool !! Two tumbs up ! Great job !!!!

Amazing videos,,

[livermoore]

:) when the Turks build a empire...u were lived in caves where at the same time u defecate...watever... second think is during world war 2 Turks just sıgned a pact of nonaggression thats all..ı think u dont have ability of reading or somnethin related with brain..cuz if u had, u dont dare talkin like this..ok commrade :))

[rachmaninov2004]

Turks chose the side of Germany during WWI and during World War II they signed also a treaty with Nazi Germany in 1941. Only in 1945, near the end of WW2, when the allies were winning, Turkey decided to choose the side of the allies.

TurGAY shouldn't be called TURKEY, but CHICKEN !!

Its well known all over the world that Turks are teachers of rapes, genocides and massacres. Teachers of Hitler!!

IF YOU WANT TO DESTROY EUROPE,LET TURKEY IN!!

[stephenirvine]

sorry chicken is already taken by france

[fatrick234]

its so unbelievable to see how close the germans actually got,i mean look how many buildings this is,well most of them do occur in france or germany i suppose,but still,quite amazing when you think about it

[growling66]

excellent

[photogonfire48]

I love this kind of "Then & Now" thing! Nice work.

[gioiscool33]

hey amazing work on this!!

but where is the music frm??

[palasta]

Medal of Honor Soundtrack

Michael Giacchino - Sturmgeist's Armored Train

[aerosoljunkie]

impressive work... :)

[WESTANDBEAST]

Germany looked scary back then.I like the way Nazi Germany looked real beautifull with flags every were and marches.

[rhli13]

Congratulations on this very technical treatment. How did you determine which photos would be matched? I'm certain that you could not have been intimately familiar with all of these sights (allthough many would have been quite obvious (Brandenburg Gate, Reichschtag etc.)) but others would have been agonizingly obscure.

Given endless time and endless funds, I would someday like to duplicate this fine effort using the endless supply of WW 2 photos cataloged in my head. Cheers!

[idontcareabouthippie]

is this the medal of honour music?

[xHproductionsx]

is this music from MHO?

[AlbeoAccipiter]

WATCH IT IF YOU WANT...

youtube.

com/watch?v=BnL7mTdL8JA

[NormanMatchem]

Wow, uh, yeah, big argument going on I see. Well off topic but I heard that many German people refuse to believe WW2 happened, they say it was a conspiracy or something. Is that true? Because I would like to hear them try to cover up these videos, or the huge casualty numbers.

PS. The music is from Medal of Honor: Front Line incase the tune sounded familiar...

[rResurgam]

I've never heard anything of the sort, sad that you would really believe fables like that... americans... biggest hypocrits alive.

[raedenjay]

amen to that!

[ruhri0411]

"Well off topic but I heard that many German people refuse to believe WW2 happened, they say it was a conspiracy or something. Is that true?"

No, that is not true. This special part of the German history is a part of school education for all young people at the age of 14.

A lot of grandfathers and grandmothers of german young people were young people at wartime, so they can tell them what happened. Most of them lost family members in ww2. A brother of my father died in russia

[ianmac9]

A most interesting juxtaposition,very well done it must have taken a lot of effort to do.

Congratulations

[usmcsam]

Prt.4

Suck my balls

[usmcsam]

Prt.3

Philippine Sea,Mariana cam.,Oper.Dragoon,Peleliu,Oper­.Market Garden,

Arnhem,Hurtgen Forest,Crucifix Hill,Aachen,Leyte Gulf,Oper.Queen,

Battle of the Bulge,Leyte,Colmar Pocket,Oper.Varsity,

Okinawa,and Iwa Jima

[usmcsam]

Prt.2 

Eastern Solomons,Milne Bay,Cape Esperance,Santa Cruz ,

Oper.Torch,Naval Battle of Guadalcanal,Tassafaronga,Renne­ll,

Kasserine Pass,Komandorski,Bismarck Sea,Schweinfurt,Wake,

Regensburg ,Tarawa,Cisterna,Monte Cassino,Normandy,

[usmcsam]

Prt.1

This is for all the Shmucks who bad mouth the U.S. contribution of WW2.

List of Battles,Places,Campaigns and Operations the U.S. were Combatants of this

is all i can think of and/or find there are plenty of more.

Battle of Britain,Pearl Harbor,Makassar Strait,Java Sea,Badung Strait

Corregidor,Coral Sea,Midway,Aleutian ,Guadalcanal cam.,Savo

[TheDude72727]

Lol dont trust anything Solchnaya said, he claims that the British and French were axis powers LOL.

[usmcsam]

rlly wow dam he is dumb

[Solechnaya]

You all know what's sad? Everyone automatically calls the Axis forces in Europe......German's! They were, infact not all German's. There were Bulgarians, Romanians, Italians, Spanish, British, Finns, French, etc etc.

[ww2fan39]

it will be cool to be there and say " an american or a german was here"

[Alkjhgfdertyui]

I have read that Germany had over 300 divisjons i Russia,and around 60 divisjons i France.If Germany didnt had fight an 2 front war, the alies wold lost.Germany fight with odds like 10 to 1,many places in France,but they never give up.They fight with al they got,specialy Waffen ss.One important thig also was that alies had the air,mutch more airplane.

[RussoSlyCat]

The divisions in France (it has to be noted) were weak broken divisions, essentially on vacation. By the time of Normandy, Hitler had already lost his tanks aircraft in Kursk.

[pinochet222]

fvck, wrong order! :)

[shaun6906]

Germany had the superiour weapons, the first jet aircraft engine, the first nuclear weapon design a long range bomber that could deliver the nuclear weapon to newyork. lets not forget about the King Tiger tanks and the Panther.

Fun Fact, After pearl harbor if germany and the japanese would have colaberated they could have invaded the eastern united states and could have penitrated up to the mississippi before a force large enough could have been assembled and stopped them

[shaun6906]

ITs really sad to realize that we could have easily lost the war. If japan would have waited untill a later date to attack. Also if hitler would have given the power of command to his generals instead of making himself the supreme comander and all major comands go through him the d-day landings would have been alot more difficult because romel would have been on his way to meet them but there was a massive time delay from orders. This ultimatly led to the demise of the 3rd reich.

[Solechnaya]

It was the Russians who paid the biggest price. Although they had defeated the Axis armies in the east, they paid for it with horrendous casualties. If it were not for the Russians, the Axis would have conquered the world. The other aliesplayed only a small part in the Axis defeat.

[usmcsam]

Im Russian and i hate it when people say this crap.Yes the USSR had the most casualties then any other country but do you realize that the tactics they used had allot to do with it?If it wasent for the efforts of all the allies u cant say dum shit like that

[usmcsam]

i keep reading these comments bout if it wasent for this or that this would of happened how the hell do you know? there is no possible way to know what would of happened stop dewling on the past. what happened is what happened thats all that matters just be happy the fascist pigs got what they deserved and another funny thing is half of you who say this of if they would of done this are prolly ppl who have no military background and has no idea what their talking about

[Solechnaya]

They know the resaults through hard core research. Do you have any military background? I sure do and I definitley know what i'm talking about!

[shaun6906]

Yes the Russians did pay a big price and did hold off the axis armys but this wasnt because the Russians were tactical. They held the german army back because the winter affected much of the nazis equipment and there was a massive supply shortage. this was also not due to the russians but due to the freezing temperatures. the russians comanders were homocidle and didnt care if their men lived or died

[psdoofus]

Yes if anybody's seen "Enemy at the gates" it accurately shows how crazy the Russian commanders were... killing "traitors" who were retreating from certain death-

At Kursk, the Germans fought tactically and each tank and anti-tank crew had killed at least two tanks on average, but the Russians just kept coming so the Germans just couldn't hold against the insane NUMBER of russians.

[usmcsam]

dosent seem like it when u say dum shit like this "If it were not for the Russians, the Axis would have conquered the world"

[HardRenaLine]

nice movie :)

[XarathosJC]

The Germans had excellent military tactics, weapons, and vehicles. Overall if Hitler hadn't opened up war on the Eastern front, we'd probably all be bowing down to the Third Reich.

Fun fact: Every 1 German that was killed, 9 Allies died.

Germans pwnd

[tsw7x62]

sooo thats y u lost??

[Matthewsfive]

Seems to me you're forgetting about that little thing called the American Eigth Air Force. Daylight bombing destroyed nazi germany from the air, regardless of eastern and western fronts. Fun fact: Air superiorty = Operation Overlord = goodbye third reich. ya buddy

[Solechnaya]

Don' forget Operation Bagration!

[bmrrman]

ps doofus yeah the ss kicked but try the 87 GI's who surrendered at the battle of the Bulge only to be shot cause the ss did'nt want to deal with POWs so some gi's swore they would never take a man wearing an ss uniform prisoner

[palasta]

oh i love this track. i can remember the one in Part1. really great work they did... and you too.

[psdoofus]

Yes, the SCHUTZENSTAFFEL (SS) were a good elite force that practically took the position of the German Wehrmacht in 1945... the Waffen-SS was only built of VOLUNTEERS, men determined to fight for Nazi Germany so its not really surprising that they kicked butt in most battles.

[w1037]

great job well done ,thanks alot

[shaykiviaho]

I want to be in the SS when i grow up...

[fkot]

u should rather be in a psychiatric hospital...

[BigBossMakaveli]

Which SS? There is no SS anymore.. And I am happy about that =>.

[Tatidilytumpatoo]

both videos were great! PROPS to u

[psdoofus]

This MoH music is very creepy.

[psdoofus]

great job on both of them... lol this is music is used on Medal of Honor airborne- MAGNIFICENT STUFF THOUGH-

[Titanic02h20]

This is really great stuff! Please post more...

[Hilfe8888]

Nice pictures about third reich:) nice done

[dlanderofur]

godspeed you warriors of aryan.

[ferrize]

echt sehr gut zusammengestellt!!!sehenswerte­s ergebnis!have you often been in germany?

[UpAtDawn]

Dude - history lovers love you! Keep up the good work! I enjoyed part I thoroughly as well!

Let us pray for Europe's continued healing as wounds like this run deep.

[sakurawingslove]

ramsteyn

[DAL2NGATEAMBROOKLEY]

WHERE IS PIC 1:57 , it looks familuar to me. I may have passed it.

[TJMurph]

Berchtesgaden Post Office

[BlackGoldenRod]

yeah it is MoH

[lotrfrk15]

sounds like Medal of Honor... but its not.

[lotrfrk15]

oh wait... it is.

[UFCknockout]

sehr gut gemacht , das muss ja ein haufen arbeit gewesen sein !!!

[hardhardcore]

Kudos, dude. I love stuff like this. It's always amazing and unexpected, at just how much of the history is still standing. It's so easy to just assume that everything was leveled.

[99qwertyu]

GREAT STUFF KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK

[Shogun987]

nice

[bodge666]

Nostalgic

[JiggaMan893]

Those damn Nazis/fascist scums could heil hitler in hell.

[meicmo]

isn't it you who got brainwashed???

[borgadmin]

nice clip! Thanks!

5/5!

[beerbank]

Brilliant

[Jyllenberg]

I really miss Bill Clinton. He was chasing women, not calling people their enemies. "If youre not with us, youre against us." So am I enemy of USA? LOL, no.

[geektar03]

Damn, that's trippy.

[banjax01]

Nice work. The period pix were taken by Walden's father, an American solder, in 1945. Walden painstakingly identified and revisited the sites. Walden's website is fantastic.